The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Catch the exciting movie of the Chronicles of Narnia with other Presbyterian Youths at Plaza Singapura on 27 Dec 2005, 3pm! Please inform your youth pastors or youth workers asap if you are interested as the seats are limited.

Visit Bible Society of Singapore for some interesting facts about Narnia and the Bible.

Edit: Wow, we actually had a turn-up of 256 youths and young adults watching Narnia together in two cinemas at Plaza Singapura last week (27 Dec 2005)! It was great...and we hope to organise more of these sort of events. Keep tuned!

PCS 125th Anniversary Celebration

As most of you would know, the Presbyterian Church in Singapore will be celebrating her 125^th Anniversary in April next year. It is indeed a joyous occasion, not only to celebrate our unity in the body of Christ, but also to celebrate God’s sustaining grace upon our Presbyterian Church for so many years. And although the exact wording of our theme for next year is yet to be finalized, its emphasis would be on looking forward to the future.

Thus, it is our hope that the youths of our churches would play a more significant role in this worship celebration. We are hoping for about 300 youths from various churches to participate in three main areas: 1) a choreographic dance which is to be part of the entire worship celebration and, 2) a further 200 youths to be part of the combined choir and, 3) a combined orchestra. The dances will be choreographed by Dr. John Lustre, youth worker of Prinsep Presbyterian Church; while the choir and orchestra will be conducted by Mr. Lim Soon Lee, SSO conductor for the Youth Orchestra with help from various choir conductors of various churches.

1. DANCE

The dancers will perform a tambourine dance to the hymn, “THE KINGDOM, POWER AND GLORY FOREVER” finale, and an on-stage dance item to the hymn, “I WILL PRAISE HIM”. No previous dance experience is needed, but basic hand-eye coordination skills would be much appreciated. The on-stage performers will be selected from a group of 300 participants. Before the dance rehearsal commences, Dr. John would like to invite interested youths to participate in a Mime and Interpretative Dance Workshop and a Tambourine Workshop as scheduled below (at no cost).

Date : 14 Dec 2005

Venue : Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School

Time : 10.00AM -12.00PM (MIME AND INTERPRETATIVE DANCE WORKSHOP)

Participants staying for the Tambourine Workshop at 1PM will be provided with lunch

: 1.00PM - 5.00 PM (TAMBOURINE WORKSHOP)

Participants must have their own Tambourines (or Hard Plastic Plates if they don’t have Tambourines yet)

The TAMBOURINE PATTERNS will be handed to the churches so that they can practice on their own depending on their availability in the months of January and February. Dr. John shall schedule a separate rehearsal for the mimes and dancers for the hymn “I WILL PRAISE HIM” choreography.

Dates for the dance rehearsals:

Every Sundays: 2 – 4pm from March to April 2006

5^th March, 12^th March, 19^th March, 26^th March,

2^nd and 16^th April – Rehearsal with Choir and Orchestra @ Jubilee Church (6:30 - 9pm, dinner will be provided),

22^nd April – Final Full Dress Rehearsal @ Singapore Indoor Stadium (details to be confirmed later),

23^rd April – Actual day @ Singapore Indoor Stadium

Venue for the dance rehearsals: True Way Presbyterian Church

Address: 156-B Stirling Road, S(148947) near Queenstown MRT station

Tel : 64743527

So, please encourage your youths to sign up as dancers now! Send in their names to the coordinator listed on page 2.

2. CHORAL

As various church choirs and conductors are already divided into several zones (as listed below); each zone will be conducting its own practices at its most convenient times. You may call the Synod office at 63385837 to check which zone your church is in. Dates and venue of practices are as scheduled below:

• two Combined Practices with all the various zones;
• two Combined Rehearsals with the dancers and orchestra; and
• one Final Full Dress Rehearsal with all three components of the participation

So, it is best that interested youths are to contact their church choir conductors or directors for more information on the practice timings. Please encourage your youths, who have experiences performing in choirs or acapella groups before, to submit their names to the choir coordinators in their own church.

Venue of practices and contact person for each zone)

Zone 1 : Living Praise PC (Mr. Gabriel Tan @ 9653-3573)

Zone 2 : Glory PC (Dn. Zhang Wei Wen @ 9002-2488)

Zone 3 : Chen-Li PC (Dn. Dorothy Sim @ 9099-8958)

Zone 4 : Bethany PC (Eld. Sng Lee Meng @ 9794-1141)

Zone 5 : Prinsep Street PC (Sister Poh Choo @ 9785-9366)

Zone 6 : Amazing Grace PC (Dn. Rebecca Teo @9028-1712)

Combined Practices (all zones)

Date : 5^th and 19^th March 2006

Time : 6:30 – 9pm (light dinner will be provided) for both dates

Venue : Jubilee Church

Address: 256 Outram Road, S(169053)

Tel : 62235203

Combined Rehearsals (with dancers and orchestra)

Date : 2^nd and 16^th Apr 2006

Time : 6:30 – 9pm (light dinner will be provided) for both dates

Venue : Jubilee Church

Address: 256 Outram Road, S(169053)

Tel : 62235203

Final Full Dress Rehearsal (everyone!)

Date : 22^nd April 2006

Time : details to be confirmed later

Venue : Singapore Indoor Stadium

3. ORCHESTRA

If any of your youths have performed in any school band or orchestra before and are interested in contributing to this worship celebration with their musical talents, please encourage them to send in their names and the instrument(s) that they play to the coordinator listed below.

Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you and God Bless.

In Christ,

Rev. Dr. Lim Boon Young

Synod Youth Council, Chairperson

Coordinator Details:

Please submit your names of interested youths to the youth coordinators in your church, alternatively, email their names to wilson@presbysing.org.sg, or fax them to 63394076 by 7 Dec 2005 (dateline for registration).

Synod Youth Leaders’ Adventure Camp 2006

Come next year, the Synod Youth Ministry will be expanding its present ministry to include the task of equipping our youth leaders for the next generation. We would like to invite youth leaders (of schooling age) and even youth pastors, workers and mentors (of no age limit) to participate in this Synod Youth Leaders’ Adventure Camp on 20 - 21 Jan 2006.

Any one serving in ministry would know the importance of building a strong team in our church. Likewise in the youth ministry today, the foundation of team-work is not to be ignored. The analogy of the body of Christ in 1 Cor 12:12-26 speak of a partnership that encourages interconnectivity and interdependence. We hope that this adventure camp will be an opportunity for youth leaders to learn more about leadership and team-work in the Christian perspective. Thus, the theme for this camp is “How should we build a ministry team in our church?”

Please submit your names to your youth coordinators in your church, alternatively, email me your application form to wilson@presbysing.org.sg, or fax to 63394076 by 3 Jan 2006 (dateline for registration).

Date : 20 - 21 Jan 2006

Application Fee : $15 (cash payment upon registration, meals will be provided)

Time period : Friday (5pm) to Sat (7:30pm), please bring your own sleeping bags for those sleeping over

Venue : Jubilee Church, 256 Outram Road, S(169053)

With best of regards,

Wilson Tan

Synod Youth Ministry

As churches begin to plan their church calendar for the New Year, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the events that the Synod Youth Ministry will be organizing for 2006. Many have asked me what the Synod Youth Ministry can provide for the churches. Primarily, we hope to utilize these events as a time of fellowship among youths and youth leaders in the greater body of Christ. Simply, there are three types of events to cater for different groups of members in our ministry.

Firstly, we have the Youth Get Together (YGT) events which are specially designed for the general youths across the churches, mainly mass-participation activities like the games month in Jun, youth worship rally in Jul, and PCS Flag Day participation in Aug.

Secondly, we also have Youth Leaders Get Together (YLGT) events which are organized for mainly youth leaders from ages 18 and above. These are groups of youths who are in some form of leadership role in the youth ministry in church. We hope to use these events to equip and develop our youth leaders for the next generation. Examples are like the youth leaders adventure camp in Jan, EP mission convention with a specific youth track in Jul, and a youth forum in Sep.

The third category is the Youth Mentors Get Together (YMGT), which only occur twice in a year. This is a time of fellowship and prayer among the leaders-mentors in our youth ministry, mainly youth advisors, youth coordinators, youth pastors and youth workers. They will be held during the students’ exam breaks in May and Nov.

Last but not least, the most important event for next year in our calendar is our Presbyterian Church in Singapore 125^th Anniversary Celebration at the National Indoor Stadium on 23 Apr 2006. The Synod Youth Ministry has been asked to present a mass dance coordination sequence during the worship under the direction of Doc John Lustre of Prinsep Street Presbyterian Church. We are currently appealing to churches for participation in this dance item of about 300 youths and another 200 youths to sing together with the main choir under the choral and orchestral direction of Mr. Lim Soon Lee who is the conductor for the NUS youth orchestra.

We hope that you would try your best to set aside these dates and encourage your youth and youth leaders to participate in these events.

Thank you and God Bless!

In Christ,

Wilson Tan